Remote viewing & psi (topic)
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Remote viewing & psi (topic)
| Type | Topic overview |
|---|---|
| Events | 25 |
| Years | 1950–2022 |
| Timeline | Show on the Timeline |
Remote viewing & psi is one of the twelve topics on the UAP Timeline. It covers remote viewing, psychic research and consciousness studies linked to the UFO subject. The Timeline lists 25 events on this topic, from 1950 to 2022.
Key people
- Dan Sherman — Former Air Force sergeant who claimed in Above Black that he was trained to communicate with aliens.
- Harold Puthoff — Physicist who co-founded the SRI remote-viewing research and later worked on AAWSAP and To The Stars Academy.
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- Preston Nichols — Engineer who claimed in The Montauk Project that he worked on secret experiments at Camp Hero.
- Pat Price — Remote viewer at SRI who described four alleged alien bases in 1973.
- Robert Bigelow — Businessman who founded NIDS and Bigelow Aerospace and ran the AAWSAP contract.
- Christopher "Kit" Green — CIA physician and analyst who became a long-time contact of Jacques Vallée and studied UAP-related injuries.
- Linda Moulton Howe — Journalist and filmmaker who runs the Earthfiles website and has reported many crash-retrieval claims.
- J. M. Hungerford — Author of the 1950 RAND memorandum on exploiting superstition for psychological warfare.
- John C. Lilly — Neuroscientist who invented the isolation tank and later claimed contact with cosmic intelligences.
- Andrew Basiago — Lawyer who claims he took part in a secret time-travel program called Project Pegasus.
- Ingo Swann — Artist and psychic whose tests at SRI led to the government's remote-viewing program.
- Mario Woods — Air Force security policeman who described a 1977 encounter at an Ellsworth AFB missile site.
- Robert Hastings — Researcher who has collected accounts of UFOs at nuclear weapons sites, author of UFOs and Nukes.
- Dale Graff — Physicist who managed remote viewing at Wright-Patterson and later the Stargate program.
- Richard Doty — Air Force Office of Special Investigations agent who fed disinformation to UFO researchers in the 1980s.
Programs, places and terms
- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Remote viewing — The claimed ability to describe distant places by mental means.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Central Intelligence Agency — The U.S. foreign intelligence agency, which has followed UFO reports since the 1940s.
- SRI International — The research institute where the government's remote-viewing studies began.
- Stargate Project — The U.S. government's remote-viewing program, which ran from the 1970s until 1995.
- Above Black — Dan Sherman's 1997 book.
- AAWSAP — The Defense Intelligence Agency's UAP research program of 2008–2010, carried out by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies.
- Disinformation — False information spread deliberately to mislead.
- Coast to Coast AM — The late-night radio show known for paranormal topics.
- Defense Intelligence Agency — The Pentagon's military intelligence agency, which ran AAWSAP.
- Project Preserve Destiny — The alleged NSA program Dan Sherman says trained him to communicate with aliens.
- National Security Agency — The U.S. signals intelligence agency, which holds UFO-related intercepts.
- Grey alien — The popular image of a small being with a large head and dark eyes.
- Alien abduction — The claimed taking of people by non-human beings.
Events
- RAND memorandum RM-365 (14 April 1950) — An Air Force-funded RAND paper studies using superstition and the paranormal for psychological warfare.
- John Lilly and the alleged hypnosis project (1958) — An alleged Air Force project used drugs and hypnosis; one participant believed he contacted aliens.
- Dan Sherman and the telepathy breeding claim (January 1963) — Air Force Sgt. Dan Sherman says he was told of a program breeding people with telepathic abilities.
- Montauk chair (January 1971) — Nichols also claims Montauk mind experiments produced a chair that turned thoughts into reality.
- Ingo Swann's magnetometer test (1972) (June 1972) — Ingo Swann's remote-viewing test with SRI leads to a CIA contract months later.
- Mario Woods incident at Ellsworth AFB (1977) (November 1977) — An Ellsworth AFB security airman says a UAP answered his spotlight signals.
- Dale Graff and Wright-Patterson remote viewing (1979) — Dale Graff is said to have run a remote viewing program at Wright-Patterson, then moved to the DIA.
- Bennewitz affair (17 November 1980) — Doty gives physicist Paul Bennewitz a forged document to confuse him.
- Pat Price's alien base reports (July 1982) — The Army's remote viewing chief finds 1973 reports of claimed underground UAP bases.
- Montauk Phoenix and Rainbow claims (1983) — Alleged Montauk projects reportedly used radio and microwaves in mind experiments.
- Remote viewers and a military trial anomaly (1984) (May 1984) — Alleged CIA documents describe the Army's remote viewers studying an anomaly during military trials.
- Puthoff leaves SRI (1985) (Summer 1985) — Hal Puthoff leaves SRI to explore alternative energy sources.
- Dan Sherman's transfer papers (December 1993) — Dan Sherman provides transfer papers he says relate to Project Preserve Destiny.
- Dan Sherman's September 1994 exchange (September 1994) — Sherman describes another exchange with the non-human source.
- Dan Sherman and abduction messages (Mid 1995) — Sherman says his messages seemed to involve alien abductions.
- End of Stargate (1995) (30 June 1995) — The CIA ends Star Gate, its remote viewing program.
- Bigelow recruits consciousness experts (1996) (7 January 1996) — Bigelow tells Vallée he is hiring experts on consciousness.
- Prudence Calabrese and TransDimensional Systems (1997) — Prudence Calabrese starts a medical remote viewing organization.
- Bigelow's expectation of a UFO announcement (1998) (11 January 1998) — Bigelow tells Vallée he feels a dramatic UAP development is coming soon.
- Henry Dakin's San Francisco building (20 February 2000) — Vallée describes a building in San Francisco renting to paranormal research groups.
- Skunk Works astral projection anecdote (28 April 2006) — Greer claims a Skunk Works engineer described using astral projection.
- CHANI Project (July 2011) — A magazine claims researchers in Africa contacted an entity from a parallel universe.
- Area 29 and Omega operations claim (30 May 2018) — A remote viewer claims targets were linked to 'Omega' operations involving advanced propulsion.
- Alaska pyramid claim (28 September 2021) — DeLonge says he was told of a large pyramid beneath Alaska.
- Kit Green psychic interview tape (20 October 2022) — Cameron releases a tape of Kit Green interviewing a psychic about UAP hotspots.
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This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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